Lead Product Designer

The role

You will own the physical experience of a wearable textile beanie. You will lead industrial design and mechanical engineering from sketch through CAD, prototyping, tooling, and DfM.

What you will do

• Own ID and ME for the wearable end-to-end
• Lead the integration of electronics into soft goods
• Define and enforce comfort engineering
• Drive the design language and material story for physical products
• Partner with the EE lead on rigid-island layout and electrode contact pressure
• Partner with audio and camera leads on acoustic ports, mic mesh, and lens windows
• Partner with the reliability lead on drop, ingress, thermal, and ergonomic robustness
• Ship the product by end of year
• Build and lead the product design function

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of industrial design and/or mechanical engineering
• Multiple shipped consumer wearables or comparable body-worn products
• Demonstrated experience integrating electronics into soft goods or textile products
• Deep CAD proficiency (SolidWorks, Fusion 360, Rhino, or equivalent)
• Rendering proficiency (Keyshot or comparable)
• Strong instinct for comfort engineering
• Experience driving DfM, tooling, and quality with overseas CMs

Nice to have

• High-density biocompatible interfaces, dry electrode arrays, or other dense sensor-to-skin integrations
• Soft goods sourcing and textile engineering: knit beanies, technical apparel, woven goods
• Optical windows, acoustic ports, or sensor windows in consumer products
• Biocompatibility, skin contact, and dermatological testing for body-worn products
• A point of view about what makes a wearable beautiful rather than gadget-y

Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Meaningful equity package
• 401(k) with company matching
• Health insurance
• Flexible PTO

Before you apply

• Evaluation completed within 14 days of first interview
• Offer letter dispatched same day as go decision, valid for 10 days
• Start date within 4 weeks of offer acceptance

About the company

sabi is a small team building a noninvasive wearable that turns thought into text using EEG/BCI technology. They are building a next-generation AI companion wearable.